Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Cardiovascular Abnormalities in Patients With the LEOPARD Syndrome

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 736-741

  Limongelli, Giuseppe ^a,d   Pacileo, Giuseppe ^a   Marino, Bruno ^b   Digilio, Maria Cristina ^b,c   Sarkozy, Anna ^b,c   Elliott, Perry ^d   Versacci, Paolo ^b   Calabro, Paolo ^a   De Zorzi, Andrea ^b,c   Di Salvo, Giovanni ^a   Syrris, Petros ^d   Patton, Michael ^e   McKenna, William J ^d   Dallapiccola, Bruno ^b,c   Calabro, Raffaele ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CANAL; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEOPARD SYNDROME; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASODILATATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR ABNORMALITIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ITALY; LEOPARD SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547651205     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.03.093     Document Type: Article

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